Okay lets back up, I am glad you do believe righteousness is imputed and yes I agree it is credited to one's account.
I have not read anyone redefine repent to mean changing one's mind towards an awareness of being perfected.
In the fullness of the term to repent, change one's mind (metanoia) does not mean to feel sorry for your sins at all, it IS a call to believe in the cross of Christ as the only way to salvation, a partial attempt at being good and following the law is not sufficient to save, one needs the full redemptive work of Jesus.
Again you misrepresent, it is a focusing on the righteousness of Jesus!! We keep our eyes on Him, He is the remedy for sin not our sense of contrition and sorrow.
Please do not twist the teaching.
You have obviously not been following this hypergrace fiasco as long as I have. Point blank, they deny that we need to confess our sins. And make amends, as Jesus said.
Hypergrace and Word Faith are both an overrealized eschatology. They repeatedly take promises meant for when we are made perfect, glorified, when Jesus returns, and apply them to Justification. Now, Justification is important! But it is our starting point.
I personally do not understand this teaching at all, focusing on your own righteousness. How do you change and grow, if you only focus on a future event? It makes no sense from a human point of view. How do you change and grow if you never come to grips with your weak areas, the one the Holy Spirit convicts me to change?
When I came to Christ, God changed me in some amazing ways. Things that I have literally never had to deal with again. Like drinking. God told me never again, and in 38 years I’ve never been tempted. So, I don’t have to confess that sin, I don’t have it anymore. BUT, many people have a different journey.
But God left me lots of stuff to work on! I cannot deny that. And he still continues to help me. And that comes about by prayer, by talking to God, and certainly asking him to help me with the obvious wrongs I have committed. I am so much closer to God, because of that process of confessing my sins. I am not losing my salvation, to feel sorry and contrite like David did, (nope, not going to even get into that stupid nonsense about dispensations, which is partly where a lot of this theological nonsense comes from.)
Point blank! The teachings of hypergrace and Word Faith are wrong on every level, and it includes this too!
I am so tired to the doublespeak, too! Certainly, repentance is NOT just a change of mind, that is a bad translation of the word metanoia. It means so much more than that. It means “turning from your sin.” And sometimes,that takes a long time!
I certainly wonder how hypergrace people even grow, when they can make the Bible say anything it wants, when they focuse on feeling good and the self, rather than the basic message of Christianity, which is Jesus dying on the cross for our sins. From Genesis 3 to Revelation we need to confess our sins. And hopefully, feel sorry enough to seek God to help us change, by the power of the Holy Spirit.